WTB: Webasto Heater Parts - Badge

[rcnagel]

After several months of serching, I've given up looking for the Webasto badge to complete my heater system. The badge went missing during the restoration. So if you have a rusty burned up incomplete heater you want to unload that has a badge please let me know. (See before and after below)

Thanks

[MarkS]

Your search is over Casey. I just checked and have a decent one it's yours gratis just shoot me a PM.

[rcnagel]

Thanks Mark, I'll probably find that really safe place I put the original one when the replacent arrives. Casey

[Cornpanzer]

Casey,
Any chance we can get you to share the steps in rebuilding one of these puppies. I have one waiting to be done this winter. For example, what did you use for paint.
TIA
David

[rcnagel]

The picture below isn't my setup, but an NOS one shown on Pelican. I'm really restoring the heater aesthetically and don't ever intend to run any gas to it. The thing that I may have done incorectly was to powder coat the red housing. This use may require a high temp custom colored paint. My powder coater actually stocks a color Porshce restorers use on the rear flapper boxes. So if you plan to restore one of these heaters, you can pay for the restoration for the boxes for free. Olympic Powder Coating in Santa Ana California www.olympicpowdercoating.com. The powder coating is Tiger Drylac which uses the European RAL color system. I'm pretty sure that the color is 3009.

I would suggest taking as many pictures as possible of each part in the car and out of it and each stage of disassembly. You will need it to re-assemble. I like to do over-sized wiring diagrams on 8x11 paper and photograph them as I disassemble.
-Clear cad plated on all hardware http://www.vannuysplating.com/
-Tool black on the burner body.
-Wurth high temp gray paint on the exhaust

I purchased some metric sized tubing from McMaster-Carr www.mcmaster.com to bend a new exhast pipe with an EMT bender from Home depot. There are two wall size available about the size that was original, go with the heavier gauge, it's easier to bend.

The main tube on my muffler was rotted out, I cut the welds both ends and then cut it in half to remove the tube and install a new one.

There is someone on the boards that is reproducing the first bend, the muffler and the tail pipe. I think the setup is around $500.

[Cornpanzer]

Great info - thanks!

[304065]

Damon Josz at Series900 in New Hampshire, (603) 863-0090, has reproduced the factory exhaust pipe and muffler. He's doing a batch of five or six Webastos right now, has a test stand set up to run them. Mine is up there, I bet he will be using it to heat his RSA this winter! Give him a call and demand that he post photos. . .

[rcnagel]

Thanks a bunch Mark! Thanks 911s Registry. Here it is all back to the way it should be.